A Word Fast

                      In the past few posts, Steve and Joel have been discussing holiness and fasting.  Indeed, fasting is a spiritual discipline that increases our dependence on God.  There are a variety of fasts such as a food fast, the ever so popular...

Fasting

One Christian discipline that helps us grow in our holiness is fasting. Fasting gives us a sensitivity to God that we don’t normally possess. Fasting helps us to concentrate on God, pray more fervently and overcome personal bondages. Fasting helps us to hear God’s...

Walking in Holiness

I really appreciated what Steve Cordle said on his Thursday blog about holiness. Last Wednesday I was on the phone with a pastor who also leads an open cell group. He was just about to release a leader to take over his own group, while he planted another one. But as...

The Vital Importance of Holiness

By Steve Cordle How much does it matter how your group leaders are living? in Joshua 7, the Israelite army gets soundly beaten at a small town named Ai. The reason was that one of their number, Achan, sinned by keping spoils of war he was told not to keep. After he...

Is There a Place for Model Cell Churches?

Someone asked a question in a recent seminar about model cell churches. He wondered if there was a place for model cell churches. Perhaps he perceived that I resisted them. I answered him by saying that I believed God wanted to raise up flagship cell churches all over...